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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance, Keystone
KeystoneThe Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Keystone by Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Baku or Keystone?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Baku for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Baku’s own page.

Choose Keystone for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Keystone’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Baku 40, Keystone 5: Baku leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Keystone 27: Baku leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Keystone 7: Baku leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Keystone 12: Baku leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Keystone 93: Keystone leads by 63 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Keystone 55: Keystone leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Keystone 66: Keystone leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Keystone 50: Baku leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Keystone 22: Baku leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Keystone 12: Baku leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Keystone 22: Baku leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Keystone 32: Keystone leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Keystone.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Baku
Best match
48match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Keystone
34match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Baku in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Keystone in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Keystone's temperatures are measured 51 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Keystone's station stands 232 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Keystone has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Keystone: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (50.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuKeystone
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign Language-
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112911
Elevation-28 m2,796 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)116 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuKeystone
City population2,300,5001,369
People per km²1,07513
Museums within 10 km500
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months-

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.